Civil Servants

Subhash Mathur was born and brought up in small towns in Rajasthan. During his school and college education at Jaipur, he was keenly involved in sports, journalism and public speaking. His civil services career has given him a platform for spreading his ideas about modernising tax administration to benefit the common man. Post retirement he is devoting his energies, along with his wife Tilak, to public and humane causes.

Subhash Mathur was born and brought up in small towns in Rajasthan. During his school and college education at Jaipur, he was keenly involved in sports, journalism and public speaking. His civil services career has given him a platform for spreading his ideas about modernising tax administration to benefit the common man. Post retirement he is devoting his energies, along with his wife Tilak, to public and humane causes.

Subhash Mathur was born and brought up in small towns in Rajasthan. During his school and college education at Jaipur, he was keenly involved in sports, journalism and public speaking. His civil services career has given him a platform for spreading his ideas about modernising tax administration to benefit the common man. Post retirement he is devoting his energies, along with his wife Tilak, to public and humane causes.

Shri K. K. Bhatnagar was born in 1938. He was brought up and educated in Kota, Rajasthan. He joined the 1962 batch of civil services as an IAS officer. During his 34 years of service in his home cadre of Rajasthan, Shri Bhatnagar held many important and challenging charges, the most memorable ones being his stint with the Jaipur Development Authority Jaipur and HUDCO, New Delhi. Based on his rich experience in urban planning and development, he served as a consultant post retirement for several international agencies on issues related to urban living.

At present, Shri Bhatnagar is living a retired life with his wife, Sudha, at Jaipur. He spends most of his evenings indulging in his passion: playing bridge.

Born in a village in what is now Jharkhand, Sunil Kumar Choudhury did his graduation and post-graduation from Ranchi University. He joined the Indian Army in 1964 and was commissioned with the Rajput Regiment. He was assigned to 15 Rajput in 1965. He also qualified as a Commando from Infantry School, Mhow. After being released from the army in 1970, he served in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in West Bengal.

Sunil joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1971. He married his batch mate, Komala Raghavan, in 1975. After retirement on superannuation in 2002, he along with his wife Komala settled down in Bengaluru. Komala passed away in January 2018.

Having been and brought up in North Indian milieu, Rashmi did her graduation and post graduation in Economics from St Xaviers College, Ahmedabad. Rashmi joined the Customs department in 1979. She got married to Parimal in 1984.

Besides playing basketball till Inter-University level, Rashmi associated herself with the NSS for six years. She also organised and participated in motivational and leadership camps. These days, Rashmi is busy learning to be an anchor.

Manoj Makker served in Customs and Central Excise for 24 years before seeking voluntary retirement. At present, he is part of a consultancy firm at Jaipur. Manoj's passions are trekking and shooting. He has participated in 16 trekking expeditions in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, besides undertaking numerous personal treks. He still finds time for his other love: landscape photography. He is a prolific writer on various aspects of life.

Arun Jain has been working with Customs and Central Excise since March, 1992 and is presently posted as Superintendent of Customs at Ahmedabad. He is a post draduate in Physics (specialized in Electronics) and also did his Masters in Business Administration, both from Gujarat University.

Sanjiv Jani is a resident of Rajkot in Saurashtra, also known as Sorath of Kathiawar peninsular region of Gujarat. By profession Sanjiv is Superintendent of Central GST but is a man of varied interests such as stage and TV artist, writer director of short films with social message and an activist. Saṇjiv has taken up many social causes like campaign against noise pollution etc. Sanjiv is passionate about his favourite causes and ever willing to go the extra mile to fulfill his dreams.

Sujit Kumar Sinha was a student of history at Hindu College. He secured a PhD scholarship at JNU but quit his dream of being an academic as he became unhappy there. Instead he joined the Indian Revenue Service as a civil servant. During his service days at the Customs and Central Excise, Suijt held some very crucial charges. He was also appointed as Advisor to the Government of Afghanistan for the period 2007-2008. Upon retirement, Sujit joined the legal fraternity. He often visits Boston to be with his daughter’s family. His status has recently been upgraded to Nana.